An odd little film based on an unpublished book by Creator/StephenKing, ''Sleepwalkers'' follows the story of Charles Brady (Brian Krause) and his mother Mary (Alice Krige), a pair of soul-sucking cat demons called Sleepwalkers. The Sleepwalkers have apparently incredible [[MasterOfIllusion powers of illusion]], but are critically weak to [[WeaksauceWeakness ordinary housecats]]. No, nothing is being spoiled here; they explain exactly what Sleepwalkers are in an expositional fake encyclopedia entry in the first ten seconds of the film.

The titular Sleepwalkers move into the town of Travis, Indiana and try to find a virgin to suck the life out of. Charles starts trying to seduce Tanya (Madchen Amick), who is [[InformedAbility apparently a virgin]]. Their relationship goes a little south when he tries to suck her soul on the first date, and a police officer shows up with an ''attack cat'' named Clovis. Charles is injured, and his mother begins a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. There are a few random car chases and murders to round out the movie.

It's also notable for being Stephen King's first collaboration with director Mick Garris.

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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Clovis, and his cat army!]]* BittersweetEnding / DownerEnding: The werecats are dead and Tanya and Clovis have survived the day. However, [[spoiler: Tanya's parents are presumed dead and multiple cops have been killed during Mary's rampage]] * BoobyTrap: The Brady house is surrounded by bear traps to keep the cats at bay.* CatsAreMean: Well, cat demons are; cats are the heroes.* CatScare: Every possible sense of the phrase gets used at some point or another.* TheCavalry: Just when things look their worst, we get a shot of ''Clovis'' leading an army of cats to the Brady house [[MundaneMadeAwesome in slow motion]]!* CompetenceZone: You know you're in trouble when a movie's competence zone is restricted to cats...* CorruptHick: The state trooper, with a side of DrillSergeantNasty.* CreatorCameo: Stephen King has a brief role as a cemetery groundskeeper.* EveryCarIsAPinto: Police cruisers explode spectacularly with one shot from a handgun. Who knew? Maybe it's somehow performed with [[AWizardDidIt sleepwalkers' magic]], of course.* [[EvilDetectingDog Evil Detecting Cats]]: All cats hate the Sleepwalkers and swarm to their house to threaten them.* EyeScream: Tanya manages to gouge Charles' eyes on two different occasions.-->'''Charles:''' Tanya, I don't think you're entering into the spirit of this. Why don't you just think of yourself as lunch? * GlamourFailure: You can see the Sleepwalkers true forms in mirrors. This, and their method of feeding, can make them a bit OurVampiresAreDifferent.* [[AdultsAreUseless Humans Are Useless]]: While Tanya manages a lot of [[EyeScream eye-gouging]] on the monsters, the only named character who actually does anything useful is ''Clovis the cat''.** Well the Shieff that came to Tanya's rescue did try, using one of the bear traps on Mary. Not his fault he was up against a supernatural monster.* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The sheriff gets body slammed on a picket fence.* ImprovisedWeapon: Momma Sleepwalker kills a man ''by stabbing him with an ear of corn''.* IncrediblyLamePun: One of the Sleepwalkers' notable abilities is to talk entirely in these during action sequences.* {{Invisibility}}: One of the Sleepwalkers' powers.* LargeHam: The Bradys. Though his mom chews the scenery, her hammyness rubbed off on Charles.--> Charles: Stop looking at me. Stop looking at me!!! Stop looking at me you FUCKING CAT!!!!"* MadeOfExplodium: [[spoiler:Perhaps the best reason to see this film is for the scene where the monster bursts into flame from a cat attack.]]* MadeOfIron: The Sleepwalkers can shrug off shotgun blasts and eye removal without any apparent ill effects.* MamaBear: The death toll goes way, ''way'' up after Charles is incapacitated and Mary gets angry.* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: We see the sleepwalkers in three different forms: human, human with cat-like face, and something looking as an anthropomorphic reptilian-skinned cat. The reflection in the mirror always shows them in the third form--presumably the true form with all illusions stripped.* NeckSnap: More like neck twist but yeah, one unfortunate cat attacking Maya get grabbed and has its neck twisted like a towel before being thrown aside.* OneWingedAngel: While mirrors show their true forms, the two title characters shift to them late in the movie. Before then, they can partly shift their face to look more cat-like.* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Between the two Sleepwalkers. They are the last two of their kind though, apparently.]]* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Charles gets hurt, Mary [[spoiler:kills Tanya's parents and half the police in the state]].* ShoutOut: The hundreds of cats besieging the Brady house resemble ''TheBirds'' more than a little.* VirginSacrifice: Sleepwalkers eat the souls of virgins to survive.* WeaksauceWeakness: Housecats.----